And it was great. Tim knows so much stuff it makes me want me to puke. We worked mainly on zhao bao exercises and other strength building exercises to help my pitiful stand up wrestling skills.

If anyone needs solo exercises Tim knows his stuff. I've been practicing hard and can't wait to learn more zb tai ji stuff.

Tim, has anyone ever set up and private lesson with you and said, "Let's wrestle" or "Let's roll and submit the •••• out of each other."

Are you coming back to New York soon? I heard February when you were here last but I haven't heard anything since.

Actually, a lot of people want to roll or spar with me in their private lessons.

All part of the learning process.

I may be back in NYC in February.

HA, I think every private I ever had with Tim went something like, "hey can you show me that cool move thing, Cool. Okay, lets roll."

I would imagine that in the martial arts world, people are going to want to test your mettle.. You would have to be the real deal for a "who's who", encounter like that...

There is a difference between "rolling" and "testing some mettle." It would be rude and disrespectful to take a private lesson in anything to "test" an instructor.

Youre right, just because its mean and disrespectful, its totally unlikely to happen.. :P ;)